Production Operative - PM Shift

Posted on November 18th, 2025

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£12.50 - £25.00 per hour

Type of Job: Permanent

Apply today to work as a Production Operative for our client's busy factory, producing and packing gammon and bacon.

Staffline is recruiting Production Operatives in Rochdale.

The rate of pay is £12.50 per hour, with a 45-minute unpaid break Monday to Friday.

Overtime is available and is paid at:
- Over 40.83 hours, £18.75 per hour
- Sundays, £25.00 per hour

This is a full-time role working fixed shifts, Monday to Friday, and the hours of work are:
- 2:10pm to 23:15pm

Your Time at Work

As a Production Operative your duties include:

- Working in a busy factory, producing and packing gammon and bacon.
- Preparing pork for smoking, curing or drying into gammon and bacon joints.
- Nursing metapress and injectors to produce the product and packing onto racks.
- Packing joints into boxes and packets to be sent to the customer.
- Hygiene Cleaning the factory and equipment.
- Loading trays into a large industrial machine.
- Ensuring hygiene and cleanliness procedures are followed at all times (e.g. hand-washing, knife sterilizing and kit wash-down), food safety is a key imperative.
- Competently performing any other tasks for which training has been completed and signed off.
- Being an ambassador for the business at all times, behaving in a professional and courteous manner with both internal and external customers.
- Strict adherence to Health Safety rules and procedures.

Our Perfect Worker

Our perfect worker will be physically fit, as there is some manual handling and you will be able to stand for long periods of time.

You will be a great team player and be reliable and punctual.

Experience in a similar role is desirable, but not essential as full training is provided.

Key Information and Benefits

- Earn £12.50 - £25 per hour
- Monday to Friday
- Temp to perm opportunity
- On-site support from Staffline
- Canteen on site
- Free car parking on site
- Free food
- Free hot drinks
- PPE provided
- Full training provided
- Opportunities for overtime
- Shop on site

Job Ref: 1DCR

About Staffline

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